As a long time Debian user, I do understand how the Debian repositories work thank you very much. I do apologize, however, as I did misspeak: KDE 4.2 is moving into Unstable this week. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2009/03/msg00157.html) Nevertheless, I stand by my opinion that KDE 4.2 is indeed ready for use by KDE 3.5.x die hards. Except maybe for those who are narrow minded and refuse to learn new ways of doing things. (See yourself in that description?) As for votes of confidence, why not take a look at the myriad of major distributions including KDE 4.2: Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Kubuntu. By the way, I'm not a KDE fanboy; I use Parsix which uses Gnome as its desktop. I also point out that I've been using Gnome for several years. I am fascinated and excited about the progress of the KDE 4 branch and my experiences with it thus far are very good and usability has improved dramatically with this release. Of course this is my opinion and I'm entitled to it. Same as you.

Mr. Bergman, we often (mostly respectfully) disagree. However, I really must say this message was funny and I had a good laugh.

I'm sorry you had bad experiences with KDE 4.2. I suspect you are more critical than me, which isn't weird. I can take some beating from KDE, since I run SVN, and still love it ;-)

Stability in 4.2 isn't at 3.5 (nor current gnome) level, at least that's my personal opinion. So in that regard I agree with you. However, I think it is usable for most casual use, and I also think that it is an important step for the KDE 4 series. And obviously I expect stability to improve, so you'll probably can change your mind some day and enjoy the goodies without the bad feelings.